People

Poor and Downtrodden - Bridge the Gap
	Strengthen Delivery of poverty alleviation programs through convergence, transparency and efficiency	Comments
	Identify 100 most backward districts of the country to bring them at par with other districts through prioritized and integrated development	Comments
	Strengthen the natural resource base of the people to tide over natural calamities	Comments
	Aim to gainfully employ rural poor in agriculture and allied activities	Comments
	Enable the urban poor to develop skills so that they take advantage of the emerging opportunities	Comments
	Facilitate partnership across all levels of government, civil society, academic and financial institutions in this national mission of poverty alleviation	Comments

Food Security
	Review the successful PDS models, and incorporate the best practices to revise the existing PDS, for benefitting the common man	Comments
	Address the issue of under-nutrition and malnutrition	Comments
	Encourage the production of cereals, pulses and oils	Comments
	Radically transform the Food Corporation of India (FCI)	Comments
	Ensure contingency stocks for any exigencies arising due to natural calamities or external factors	Comments
	Seek the participation of voluntary organizations in running community kitchens	Comments

SCs, STs, OBCs and Other Weaker Sections
	A high priority for SC, ST, OBCs and other weaker sections would be to create an ecosystem for education and entrepreneurship	Comments
	BJP is committed to the eradication of untouchability at all levels	Comments
	BJP is committed to eliminate manual scavenging	Comments
	BJP will look at more effective ways to pull these people out of the poverty line	Comments
	BJP will ensure that the funds allocated for schemes and programmes for SC, ST, OBCs and other weaker sections are utilized properly	Comments
	A mission mode project would be made for housing, education, health and skills development	Comments
	Special focus would be on the children, especially the girl child, with regards to health, education and skills development	Comments
	Setting up the entire education network for tribals	Comments
	Upgrading housing, water and health facilities	Comments
	Electrification of tribal hamlets and provision of all - weather roads	Comments
	Initiating new economic activities	Comments
	Promoting the products associated with the tribal culture by setting tribal haats in tourist towns and other centres	Comments
	Ensure that the tribal land is not alienated	Comments
	Facilitating access to minor forest produce and creating a network of rural haats (markets)	Comments
	Establishing the National Centre for Tribal Research and Culture to preserve the tribal culture and languages	Comments
	Enhancing the funds for tribal welfare and development	Comments

Minorities - Equal Opportunity
	Ensure that the young, and the girl child in particular get education and jobs without discrimination	Comments
	Strengthen and modernize minority educational systems and institutions; dovetailing them with modern requirements. National Madrasa modernization programme would be initiated	Comments
	Empower with vibrancy in Livelihood and Entrepreneurial opportunities	Comments
	Augment their traditional artisanship and entrepreneurial skill, which are a backbone of our cottage and small-scale industry - strengthening these sectors through better market linkages, branding and access to credit	Comments
	Empower Waqf Boards in consultation with religious leaders; taking steps to remove encroachments from and unauthorized occupation of Waqf properties	Comments
	Curate their rich heritage and culture - maintenance and restoration of heritage sites; digitization of archives; preservation and promotion of Urdu	Comments
	Ensure a peaceful and secure environment, where there is no place for either the perpetrators or exploiters of fear	Comments
	Facilitate the setting up of a permanent Inter-faith Consultative mechanism to promote harmony and trust, under the auspices of religious leaders	Comments

Neo-Middle Class - Meet their Aspirations
	Educational scholarships and educational facilities	Comments
	Medical insurance and quality healthcare services	Comments
	Middle-income housing	Comments
	Efficient public transport systems	Comments

Children - the Future of the Nation
	Lay special emphasis on vulnerable children and especially those belonging to the vulnerable communities like SCs, STs, OBCs, migrants, slum dwellers, street dwellers and those with disabilities	Comments
	Ensure effective implementation of the Right to Education, Right to Food Security Act	Comments
	Review, amend and strengthen the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 2012 and Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS)	Comments
	Focused efforts will be made to address issue of anaemia	Comments
	Reduce the burden of books on children without compromising on the quality of education	Comments
	Endeavour to inculcate values amongst children	Comments

Senior Citizens
	Provide financial support, exploring ideas like additional tax benefits and higher interest rates	Comments
	Invest in setting up and improving old-age homes	Comments
	Harness their experience in the National Interest. Devise schemes and programs to engage the senior citizens as volunteers / part time workers in various development programmes of the government, in urban and rural areas	Comments

Specially Abled
	Enact the 'Rights of the Persons with Disabilities bill' (RPWD)	Comments
	Use technology to deliver low cost quality education to specially-abled students 'in-home' - through E-learning	Comments
	Identify each and every special needs person across the country - establishing a web based disability registration system to issue universal ID for all applicable government benefits (healthcare, transportation, jobs, education etc)	Comments
	Ensure disabled friendly access to public facilities, public buildings and transport	Comments
	Ensure maximum economic independence of the disabled by creating more income generation models for them	Comments
	Support and aid voluntary organizations working for the care of the disabled	Comments
	Provide a higher tax relief for the family member taking care of the disabled	Comments

Youth - Making India Unstoppable
	We will initiate the 'Young Leaders programme' in all sectors, to recognize, reward and involve these exceptionally talented youth to serve as role models and mentors for others	Comments
	Set up the National Youth Advisory Council	Comments
	BJP will initiate nation-wide 'district level incubation and accelerator programme' for encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship	Comments
	Procedure to avail Student's loans will be simplified and loans made affordable	Comments
	Set up neighbourhood Children's/ Youth Parliament across India that leads to vibrant student committees	Comments
	Will launch a programme, 'Youth for Development'	Comments

Promotion of Sports
	More funds will be allocated to sports, and we will encourage the State Governments to fully discharge their responsibility in the promotion of sports	Comments
	Steps would be taken to inculcate a culture of sports at the school level	Comments
	Launch a 'National Sports Talent Search System', so that extraordinary sporting talent is identified at a very young age. Such promising boys and girls will be selected for special training	Comments
	Attractive career path needs to be planned for sportspersons providing security of career through jobs in government, PSUs and private sector	Comments
	Establish sports academies across the country	Comments
	Special scheme would be devised for sportspersons to ensure social security	Comments
	Encourage business houses to patronize sports and sportspersons	Comments
	Mandate all new housing colonies to include sports facilities	Comments

Women - The Nation Builder
	Women's welfare and development will be accorded a high priority at all levels within the government, and BJP is committed to 33% reservation in parliamentary and state assemblies through a constitutional amendment	Comments
	Launch a national campaign for saving the girl child and educating her - Beti Bachao - Beti Padhao	Comments
	Structure a comprehensive scheme, incorporating best practices from past successes like Balika Samruddhi, Ladli Laxmi and Chiranjeevi Yojana to support encourage positive attitude amongst families towards the girl child	Comments
	Program for women healthcare in a mission mode, especially focusing on domains of Nutrition and Pregnancy - with emphasis on rural, SCs, STs and OBCs	Comments
	We will enable women with training and skills - setting up dedicated Women ITIs, Women wings in other ITIs	Comments
	Strict implementation of laws related to women, particularly those related to rape	Comments
	Fund for relief and rehabilitation of rape victims lies unused at the Centre as the Government has not worked out the modalities of dispensation. BJP will clear this on priority	Comments
	Government will create an Acid Attack victims welfare fund to take care of the medical costs related to treatment and cosmetic reconstructive surgeries of such victims	Comments
	Make police stations women friendly, and increase the number of women in police at different levels	Comments
	Introduce self defence as a part of the school curriculum	Comments
	Using information technology for women's safety	Comments
	Set up an All Women Mobile Bank to cater to women	Comments
	Special skills training and business incubator park for women	Comments
	Setting up special business facilitation center for women	Comments
	Expand and improve upon the network of women / working women hostels	Comments
	Set up a dedicated W-SME (Women Small and medium enterprises) cluster in every district	Comments
	Review the working conditions and enhance the remuneration of Anganwadi worker's	Comments
	Remove any remaining gender disparities in property rights, marital rights and cohabitation rights	Comments
	Special adult literacy initiative would be started for women with focus on SCs, STs, OBCs, and slum residents	Comments
	Will ensure that the loans to Women Self Help Groups would be available at low interest rates	Comments
	Special programs aimed at girls below poverty line, tribals and indigent women	Comments
	Appropriate measures would be taken to check female foeticide, dowry, child marriage, trafficking, sexual harassment, rape and family violence	Comments
	We will transform the quality of life of women in Rural India by providing electricity, tapped water, cleaner fuel and toilets in every home	Comments

School Education
	NDA's flagship program 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan': Mechanism would be set up for its performance audit and to have real time information about its performance. Programme shall be strengthened and expanded with a goal to remove illiteracy	Comments
	Universalization of secondary school education and skills development through functional school shall be seriously pursued with particular focus on rural, tribal and difficult areas	Comments
	The content and process of school education shall be thoroughly reviewed to make it dynamic, stress-free, attractive and responsive to the emerging national needs	Comments
	Girls shall be provided all possible help to continue and complete school education	Comments
	The digital divide shall not be allowed to create further divisions in the learning situations of children	Comments
	Special pedagogy would be developed for differently-abled students	Comments
	On priority, a national modernization programme for madrasa's would be started	Comments
	Mid-day meal scheme would be revitalized in terms of management and delivery	Comments
	We will explore ways to reduce the daily burden of carrying books to school for children, which would also entail use of technology for education as a mission mode project	Comments
	Establish a national E-Library to empower school teachers and students	Comments
	Initiate a multi-country student exchange programme for broadening the horizon of school going children	Comments
	Creative talents of students will be recognized and encouraged	Comments

Higher and Professional Education
	Enhancing the pivotal role of the teachers by reworking the work culture of teacher training institutions with a goal to prepare committed and performing teachers	Comments
	Optimum utilization of physical and manpower resources	Comments
	A mechanism for close interaction between industry (including SME), academia and community would be instituted	Comments
	Needs assessment exercise will be done for identifying the future needs across sectors, and the same would be used for developing appropriate courses for higher education, to ensure that the country has adequate manpower for every sector, both establishe	Comments
	Will provide autonomy with steps to ensure accountability for institutions of higher learning	Comments
	Will raise the standard of education and research, so that Indian universities become at par with the top global universities and find their place in the global league	Comments
	The credibility of the regulatory bodies shall be restored. The procedures to make appointments to senior positions shall be made transparent and merit and ability shall be the sole criterion	Comments
	UGC will be restructured and it will be transformed into a Higher Education Commission rather than just being a grant distribution agency	Comments
	We will revisit the Apprenticeship Act to facilitate our youth to Earn while they Learn	Comments

Vocational Training
	Would set up Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and virtual classrooms to make it convenient for working class people and housewives to further their knowledge and qualifications	Comments
	Correspondence courses will be started in new domains for self-employment, family run businesses, entrepreneurship and innovation, and these courses would be provided for free to women	Comments

Skills - Focusing on Productivity and Employability
	Skill Mapping - to help scientifically plan our national human resource development that India would need (like engineers, architects, doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, plumbers, carpenters, welders, etc	Comments
	Launch a 'National Multi-skill Mission'	Comments
	We will run short-term courses, in the evenings, focusing on employable skills	Comments
	We will also set up Centres of Excellence in various sectors in partnership with the Industry	Comments
	To ensure industry responsive manpower, we will bring together industry, universities and government	Comments
	We will promote vocational training on a massive scale. Rigid segregation of formal education and skill development will be broken; a mechanism will be established to give vocational qualifications of Academic Equivalence	Comments
	We will also create institutional mechanisms to refresh and upgrade abilities through continuing education - to make them employable	Comments
	We will focus on need based skill development and employability; making our youth employable even in the most sophisticated jobs	Comments
	We will put emphasis on imparting soft skills to enhance employability including a national program on foreign languages	Comments
	We will launch a national programme for digital empowerment through computer literacy of the people, especially the youth	Comments
	We will assess the talent and capacity of our youth from an early age; so they can be groomed accordingly	Comments
	We will push for greater practical and research training encouraging real world experience through internships and apprenticeships	Comments

Health Services - Increase the Access, Improve the Quality, Lower the Cost
	Initiate the 'National Health Assurance Mission', with a clear mandate to provide universal healthcare that is not only accessible and affordable, but also effective, and reduces the OOP spending for the common man	Comments
	Education and Training - Will review the role of various professional regulatory bodies in healthcare and consider setting up an overarching lean body for healthcare. High priority will be given to address the shortfall of healthcare professionals	Comments
	Modernize Government hospitals, upgrading infrastructure and latest technologies	Comments
	Reorganize Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in order to converge various departments dealing in healthcare, food and nutrition and pharmaceuticals, for effective delivery of healthcare services	Comments
	Increase the number of medical and para-medical colleges to make India self sufficient in human resources, and set up an AIIMS like institute in every state	Comments
	Move to pre-emptive care model where the focus and thrust will be on child health and prevention	Comments
	School health program would be a major focus area, and health and hygiene will be made a part of the school curriculum	Comments
	Focus on Rural Health care delivery	Comments
	Senior Citizens healthcare would be a special focus area	Comments
	Give high priority to chronic diseases, and will invest in research and development of solutions for chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, cancer, CVD etc	Comments
	Occupational health programs will be pursued aggressively	Comments
	Utilize the ubiquitous platform of mobile phones for healthcare delivery and set up the 'National eHealth Authority' to leverage telemedicine and mobile healthcare for expanding reach and coverage and to define the standards and legal framework	Comments
	Universalization of emergency medical services-108	Comments
	Re-orientation of herbal plants board to encourage farming of herbal plants	Comments
	Population stabilization would be a major thrust area and would be pursued as a mission mode program	Comments
	Programme for Women Healthcare with emphasis on rural, SC, ST and OBC in a mission mode	Comments
	Mission mode project to eradicate malnutrition	Comments
	Launch National Mosquito Control mission	Comments
	Create an open defecation free India by awareness campaign and enabling people to build toilets in their home as well as in schools and public places	Comments
	Set up modern, scientific sewage and waste management systems	Comments
	We will introduce Sanitation Ratings measuring and ranking our cities and towns on 'sanitation'; and rewarding the best performers	Comments
	Make potable drinking water available to all thus reducing water-borne diseases, which will automatically translate into Diarrhoea-free India	Comments

Poor and Downtrodden - Bridge the Gap

Food Security

SCs, STs, OBCs and Other Weaker Sections

Minorities - Equal Opportunity

Neo-Middle Class - Meet their Aspirations

Children - the Future of the Nation

Senior Citizens

Specially Abled

Youth - Making India Unstoppable

Promotion of Sports

Women - The Nation Builder

School Education

Higher and Professional Education

Vocational Training

Skills - Focusing on Productivity and Employability

Health Services - Increase the Access, Improve the Quality, Lower the Cost